Health for Life - Winter 2017

MOMENTS EXPECTING WHEN FOR THE LEAST EXPECTED

Norm Bell STAFF WRITER

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s a Kern County supervisor, Leticia Perez knows well that you can’t please all of your constituents all of the time. But her efforts to please one of her youngest constituents has been unusu- ally demanding. Her son Jude had “carried on for years” about how much he was look- ing forward to having a younger sister. With her 40th birthday now in the rear- view mirror, she recognizes she won’t be able to fulfill his wish. But Jude has

since warmed up to the idea of a new, younger brother. It’s been more than six months since Perez gave birth to a baby boy named Noah, who arrived 7½ weeks prema- turely. Perez is thankful that the neona- tal team at Kern Medical orchestrated a happy ending to what was clearly a difficult situation. On June 29, the Democrat who represents District 5 took part in a video on pregnancy for the Kern Coun-

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